Conservation genomics on the edge of extinction:

Aegiphila caymanensis (Lamiaceae)

Alex Byrne, Sara Barrios, Martin Hamilton, Frederic Burton, Colin Clubbe, Juan Viruel

•601 plant species in 259km2

Aegiphila caymanensis

2020

North

Side

Health

City

Data Collection –HybSeq HTS

Combines:

•Genome Skimming –recovers high-copy DNA e.g. plastid

DNA

•Target Capture –recovers specific DNA using matching baits

(Angiosperms353)

•nDNA: 2388 SNPs across 223 genes for only 12 individuals